Cities

by Steven R. Smith

Cities cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 August 2009
  • Label: Immune
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 8:03
  • Community rating: 3.41/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist constructs desolate, cinematic soundscapes utilizing heavily layered acoustic and electric guitars, archaic string instruments, and subtle tape loops. The instrumental tracks slowly build into towering, melancholic drones that evoke imagery of ruined, abandoned urban centers. It is a masterful exercise in blending the structural patience of post-rock with the archaic tones of free folk.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Cities in Decline (5:15)
  2. Black Paper Scrim (3:46)
  3. The Paling Day (3:10)
  4. Night Upon Us (4:18)
  5. Line to Line, Pole to Pole (1:22)
  6. The Road (3:40)
  7. The City Gate (3:27)
  8. Valuska (1:10)
  9. Distance and Passing (4:58)
  10. All is One, One is None, None is All (2:22)

Credits

  • Jo毛lle Ursull - primary artist, written-by
  • Thierry Vaton - arranged by
  • D茅d茅 Saint-Prix - written-by

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